Dr Zaiqiao Meng

  • Lecturer (School of Computing Science)

telephone: 01413304271
email: Zaiqiao.Meng@glasgow.ac.uk

220B Sir Alwyn Williams Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QN

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318

Biography

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Glasgow, within the esteemed Information Retrieval Group and IDA section of the School of Computing Science. Additionally, I serve as an Affiliated Lecturer at the Language Technology Lab (LTL) at the University of Cambridge.

Previously, I conducted research as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Language Technology Lab (LTL) of the University of Cambridge and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Information Retrieval group of the University of Glasgow. I have also been a visiting PhD student at the MINE lab of KAUST.

My research topics includes, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, LLMs, AI Agents, as well as Knowledge (Graphs) Extraction, Representation & Reasoning Learning, particularly within BioMedical applications (AI4Biomedicine).

Currently, I am co-leading the Glasgow AI4BioMed Lab, where we work on natural language processing, knowledge graphs, language models, and more to extract and infer biomedical knowledge. If you are interested in collaborating or pursuing a PhD with me, please refer to this post for more details.

 

 

Research interests

My research focuses on the intersection of machine learning, knowledge graphs, and natural language processing, with a current emphasis on biomedical applications.

  • Machine Learning
  • Geometric Deep Learning (Graph Neural Networks)
  • Knowledge Graph Construction, Utilisation and Reasoning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Large Language Models
  • AI Agents
  • Recommender Systems
  • Healthcare Related Applications (e.g. Clinical Summarisation, Disease Outbreak Surveillance and Drug Discovery)

Publications

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Number of items: 43.

2025

Haniff, Qasim, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Pongkemmanun, Tanatapanun, Sia, Zheng Chuang, Newport, Heather, Ooi, Yuning and Jani, Bhautesh D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X (2025) Use of artificial intelligence to transcribe and summarise general practice consultations. Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence, 8, 43. (doi: 10.21037/jmai-24-257)

Tian, Fangzheng ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Fang, Jinyuan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2025) Am I on the Right Track? What Can Predicted Query Performance Tell Us about the Search Behaviour of Agentic RAG. In: IR-RAG Workshop at SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2025) KiRAG: Knowledge-Driven Iterative Retriever for Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation. In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna, Austria, 27 July - 1 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Zhang, Xi, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Lever, Jake ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939 and Ho, Edmond S.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5862-106X (2025) Libra: Leveraging Temporal Images for Biomedical Radiology Analysis. In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna, Austria, 27 July - 1 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Fang, Jinyuan, Parry, Andrew and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2025) Constructing and Evaluating Declarative RAG Pipelines in PyTerrier. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Dong, Shen, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2025) To Personalise or Not? Why Personalisation Knowledge Can Fall Short in Enhancing Conversational Information Seeking. In: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR @ ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2024) TRACE the Evidence: Constructing Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning Chains for Retrieval-Augmented Generation. In: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference 2024, Miami, FL, USA, 12-16 Nov 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Zhang, Meiru, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Collier, Nigel (2024) Can We Instruct LLMs to Compensate for Position Bias? In: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference 2024, Miami, FL, USA, 12-16 Nov 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Zhaohan, Liu, Siwei, Liang, Shangsong, Jani, Bhautesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) Heterogeneous biomedical entity representation learning for gene-disease association prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(5), bbae380. (doi: 10.1093/bib/bbae380) (PMID:39154194) (PMCID:PMC11330343)

Yi, Xinhao, Liu, Siwei, Wu, Yu, McCloskey, Douglas and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) BPP: a platform for automatic biochemical pathway prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(5), bbae355. (doi: 10.1093/bib/bbae355) (PMID:39082653) (PMCID:PMC11289738)

Long, Zijun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-960X, Zhuang, Lipeng, Killick, George, Aragon-Camarasa, Gerardo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3756-5569, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion. In: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 19-24 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Zhang, Xi, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Lever, Jake ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939 and Ho, Edmond S.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5862-106X (2024) Gla-AI4BioMed at RRG24: Visual Instruction-tuned Adaptation for Radiology Report Generation. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), 23rd BioNLP Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, 16 August 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2024) FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction. 5th AI for Science workshop: Scaling in AI for SCientific Discovery at The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria, 26-27 July 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Cao, Jiahang, Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Knowledge graph embedding: a survey from the perspective of representation spaces. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(6), pp. 1-42. (doi: 10.1145/3643806)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2024) REANO: Optimising Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models through Knowledge Graph Generation. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 Aug 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Frisoni, Giacomo, Cocchieri, Alessio, Presepi, Alex, Moro, Gianluca and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) To Generate or to Retrieve? On the Effectiveness of Artificial Contexts for Medical Open-Domain Question Answering. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Long, Zijun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-960X, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3756-5569 and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) LACVIT: A Label-aware Contrastive Fine-tuning Framework for Vision Transformers. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, 14-19 Apr 2024, pp. 5275-5279. ISBN 9798350344851 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447982)

Arslan Manzoor, Muhammad, AlBarri, Sarah, Xian, Ziting, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Nakov, Preslav and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Multimodality representation learning: a survey on evolution, pretraining and its applications. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 20(3), 74. (doi: 10.1145/3617833)

Tang, Shaowei, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Dynamic co-embedding model for temporal attributed networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35(3), pp. 3488-3502. (doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3193564) (PMID:35900994)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2024) Enhancing Late Interaction with Informative Entities for Passage Retrieval. 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024): The First Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval Workshop (KEIR@ECIR 2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024.

Chen, Guanzheng, Li, Xin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liang, Shangsong and Bing, Lidong (2024) CLEX: Continuous Length Extrapolation for Large Language Models. In: 12th International Conference on Learning Representations, Vienna, Austria, 7-11 May 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Chen, Xiaoru, Wang, Yingxu, Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Heterogeneous graph contrastive learning with metapath-based augmentations. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 8(1), pp. 1003-1014. (doi: 10.1109/TETCI.2023.3322341)

2023

Fu, Zihao, Zhang, Meiru, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Shen, Yannan, Buckeridge, David and Collier, Nigel (2023) BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset. In: 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Vancouver, Canada, 20-27 February 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Cao, Panfeng, Wang, Ye, Zhang, Qiang and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2023) GenKIE: Robust Generative Multimodal Document Key Information Extraction. In: 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, 06-10 Dec 2023, pp. 14702-14713. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.979)

Fu, Zihao, Su, Yixuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Collier, Nigel (2023) Biomedical Named Entity Recognition via Dictionary-based Synonym Generalization. In: 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, 06-10 Dec 2023, pp. 14621-14635. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.903)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2023) KGPR: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Passage Ranking. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023, pp. 3880-3885. ISBN 9798400701245 (doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615252)

Wu, Bin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2023) Dynamic Bayesian contrastive predictive coding model for personalized product search. ACM Transactions on the Web, (doi: 10.1145/3609225) (Early Online Publication)

Fang, Jinyuan, Wang, Xiaobin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Xie, Pengjun, Huang, Fei and Jiang, Yong (2023) MANNER: A Variational Memory-Augmented Model for Cross Domain Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition. In: 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '23), Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023, (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.234)

Liu, Siwei, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2023) Graph neural pre-training for recommendation with side information. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(3), 74. (doi: 10.1145/3568953)

Yuan, Zhangdie, Hu, Songbo, Vulic, Ivan, Korhonen, Anna and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2023) Can Pretrained Language Models (Yet) Reason Deductively? In: 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2-6 May 2023, pp. 1447-1462. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.106)

Wang, Yingxu, Chen, Xiaoru, Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2023) Enhancing conversational recommendation systems with representation fusion. ACM Transactions on the Web, 17(1), 6. (doi: 10.1145/3577034)

Chen, Guanzheng, Liu, Fangyu, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2023) Revisiting Parameter-Efficient Tuning: Are We Really There Yet? In: 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi, 7-11 Dec 2022, pp. 2612-2626.

2022

Meng, Z. et al. (2022) BioCaster in 2021: automatic disease outbreaks detection from global news media. Bioinformatics, 38(18), pp. 4446-4448. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac497) (PMID:35900173) (PMCID:PMC9477518)

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Fangyu, Shareghi, Ehsan, Su, Yixuan, Collins, Charlotte and Collier, Nigel (2022) Rewire-then-Probe: A Contrastive Recipe for Probing Biomedical Knowledge of Pre-trained Language Models. In: 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 22-27 May 2022, pp. 4798-4810.

Wang, Yu, Xin, Xin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Jose, Joemon M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-1759, Feng, Fuli and He, Xiangnan (2022) Learning Robust Recommenders Through Cross-Model Agreement. In: ACM Web Conference 2022, Lyon, France, 25-29 April 2022, pp. 2015-2025. ISBN 9781450390965 (doi: 10.1145/3485447.3512202)

Liang, Shangsong, Luo, Yupeng and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2022) Profiling users for question answering communities via flow-based constrained co-embedding model. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(2), 34. (doi: 10.1145/3470565)

2021

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2021) Variational Bayesian representation learning for grocery recommendation. Information Retrieval, 24(4-5), pp. 347-369. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-021-09397-1)

2020

Meng, Z. et al. (2020) BETA-Rec: Build, Evaluate and Tune Automated Recommender Systems. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 588-590. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3411524)

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2020) Exploring Data Splitting Strategies for the Evaluation of Recommendation Models. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 681-686. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3418479)

Huang, Huimin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2020) Recurrent neural variational model for follower-based influence maximization. Information Sciences, 528, pp. 280-293. (doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2020.04.023)

Liu, Siwei, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2020) A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Model for Cold-Start Recommendation. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2029-2032. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401252)

2019

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2019) Variational Bayesian Context-aware Representation for Grocery Recommendation. In: 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys19) - CARS 2019 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019,

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liang, Shangsong, Fang, Jinyuan and Xiao, Teng (2019) Semi-supervisedly Co-embedding Attributed Networks. In: Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada, 08-14 Dec 2019,

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Articles

Haniff, Qasim, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Pongkemmanun, Tanatapanun, Sia, Zheng Chuang, Newport, Heather, Ooi, Yuning and Jani, Bhautesh D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X (2025) Use of artificial intelligence to transcribe and summarise general practice consultations. Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence, 8, 43. (doi: 10.21037/jmai-24-257)

Meng, Zhaohan, Liu, Siwei, Liang, Shangsong, Jani, Bhautesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) Heterogeneous biomedical entity representation learning for gene-disease association prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(5), bbae380. (doi: 10.1093/bib/bbae380) (PMID:39154194) (PMCID:PMC11330343)

Yi, Xinhao, Liu, Siwei, Wu, Yu, McCloskey, Douglas and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) BPP: a platform for automatic biochemical pathway prediction. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(5), bbae355. (doi: 10.1093/bib/bbae355) (PMID:39082653) (PMCID:PMC11289738)

Cao, Jiahang, Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Knowledge graph embedding: a survey from the perspective of representation spaces. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(6), pp. 1-42. (doi: 10.1145/3643806)

Arslan Manzoor, Muhammad, AlBarri, Sarah, Xian, Ziting, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Nakov, Preslav and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Multimodality representation learning: a survey on evolution, pretraining and its applications. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 20(3), 74. (doi: 10.1145/3617833)

Tang, Shaowei, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Dynamic co-embedding model for temporal attributed networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35(3), pp. 3488-3502. (doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3193564) (PMID:35900994)

Chen, Xiaoru, Wang, Yingxu, Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2024) Heterogeneous graph contrastive learning with metapath-based augmentations. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 8(1), pp. 1003-1014. (doi: 10.1109/TETCI.2023.3322341)

Wu, Bin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2023) Dynamic Bayesian contrastive predictive coding model for personalized product search. ACM Transactions on the Web, (doi: 10.1145/3609225) (Early Online Publication)

Liu, Siwei, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2023) Graph neural pre-training for recommendation with side information. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(3), 74. (doi: 10.1145/3568953)

Wang, Yingxu, Chen, Xiaoru, Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2023) Enhancing conversational recommendation systems with representation fusion. ACM Transactions on the Web, 17(1), 6. (doi: 10.1145/3577034)

Meng, Z. et al. (2022) BioCaster in 2021: automatic disease outbreaks detection from global news media. Bioinformatics, 38(18), pp. 4446-4448. (doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac497) (PMID:35900173) (PMCID:PMC9477518)

Liang, Shangsong, Luo, Yupeng and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2022) Profiling users for question answering communities via flow-based constrained co-embedding model. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(2), 34. (doi: 10.1145/3470565)

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2021) Variational Bayesian representation learning for grocery recommendation. Information Retrieval, 24(4-5), pp. 347-369. (doi: 10.1007/s10791-021-09397-1)

Huang, Huimin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2020) Recurrent neural variational model for follower-based influence maximization. Information Sciences, 528, pp. 280-293. (doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2020.04.023)

Conference or Workshop Item

Meng, Zhaohan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2024) FusionDTI: Fine-grained Binding Discovery with Token-level Fusion for Drug-Target Interaction. 5th AI for Science workshop: Scaling in AI for SCientific Discovery at The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria, 26-27 July 2024. (Accepted for Publication)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2024) Enhancing Late Interaction with Informative Entities for Passage Retrieval. 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024): The First Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval Workshop (KEIR@ECIR 2024), Glasgow, Scotland, 24-28 March 2024.

Conference Proceedings

Tian, Fangzheng ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3282-0220, Fang, Jinyuan, Ganguly, Debasis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-7138, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2025) Am I on the Right Track? What Can Predicted Query Performance Tell Us about the Search Behaviour of Agentic RAG. In: IR-RAG Workshop at SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, 17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2025) KiRAG: Knowledge-Driven Iterative Retriever for Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation. In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna, Austria, 27 July - 1 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Zhang, Xi, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Lever, Jake ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939 and Ho, Edmond S.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5862-106X (2025) Libra: Leveraging Temporal Images for Biomedical Radiology Analysis. In: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), Vienna, Austria, 27 July - 1 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X, Fang, Jinyuan, Parry, Andrew and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2025) Constructing and Evaluating Declarative RAG Pipelines in PyTerrier. In: 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025), Padua, Italy, 13-17 July 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Dong, Shen, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2025) To Personalise or Not? Why Personalisation Knowledge Can Fall Short in Enhancing Conversational Information Seeking. In: The Second Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval (KEIR @ ECIR 2025), Lucca, Italy, 10 Apr 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2024) TRACE the Evidence: Constructing Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning Chains for Retrieval-Augmented Generation. In: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference 2024, Miami, FL, USA, 12-16 Nov 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Zhang, Meiru, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Collier, Nigel (2024) Can We Instruct LLMs to Compensate for Position Bias? In: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference 2024, Miami, FL, USA, 12-16 Nov 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Long, Zijun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-960X, Zhuang, Lipeng, Killick, George, Aragon-Camarasa, Gerardo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3756-5569, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087 (2024) CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion. In: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 19-24 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Zhang, Xi, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Lever, Jake ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8198-2939 and Ho, Edmond S.L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5862-106X (2024) Gla-AI4BioMed at RRG24: Visual Instruction-tuned Adaptation for Radiology Report Generation. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), 23rd BioNLP Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand, 16 August 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2024) REANO: Optimising Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models through Knowledge Graph Generation. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 Aug 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Frisoni, Giacomo, Cocchieri, Alessio, Presepi, Alex, Moro, Gianluca and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) To Generate or to Retrieve? On the Effectiveness of Artificial Contexts for Medical Open-Domain Question Answering. In: 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 August 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Long, Zijun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-960X, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3756-5569 and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2024) LACVIT: A Label-aware Contrastive Fine-tuning Framework for Vision Transformers. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, 14-19 Apr 2024, pp. 5275-5279. ISBN 9798350344851 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447982)

Chen, Guanzheng, Li, Xin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liang, Shangsong and Bing, Lidong (2024) CLEX: Continuous Length Extrapolation for Large Language Models. In: 12th International Conference on Learning Representations, Vienna, Austria, 7-11 May 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Fu, Zihao, Zhang, Meiru, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Shen, Yannan, Buckeridge, David and Collier, Nigel (2023) BAND: Biomedical Alert News Dataset. In: 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Vancouver, Canada, 20-27 February 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Cao, Panfeng, Wang, Ye, Zhang, Qiang and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2023) GenKIE: Robust Generative Multimodal Document Key Information Extraction. In: 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, 06-10 Dec 2023, pp. 14702-14713. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.979)

Fu, Zihao, Su, Yixuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Collier, Nigel (2023) Biomedical Named Entity Recognition via Dictionary-based Synonym Generalization. In: 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), Singapore, 06-10 Dec 2023, pp. 14621-14635. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.903)

Fang, Jinyuan, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X (2023) KGPR: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Passage Ranking. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Birmingham, UK, 21-25 Oct 2023, pp. 3880-3885. ISBN 9798400701245 (doi: 10.1145/3583780.3615252)

Fang, Jinyuan, Wang, Xiaobin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Xie, Pengjun, Huang, Fei and Jiang, Yong (2023) MANNER: A Variational Memory-Augmented Model for Cross Domain Few-Shot Named Entity Recognition. In: 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '23), Toronto, Canada, 9-14 July 2023, (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.234)

Yuan, Zhangdie, Hu, Songbo, Vulic, Ivan, Korhonen, Anna and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2023) Can Pretrained Language Models (Yet) Reason Deductively? In: 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2-6 May 2023, pp. 1447-1462. (doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.106)

Chen, Guanzheng, Liu, Fangyu, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 and Liang, Shangsong (2023) Revisiting Parameter-Efficient Tuning: Are We Really There Yet? In: 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi, 7-11 Dec 2022, pp. 2612-2626.

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liu, Fangyu, Shareghi, Ehsan, Su, Yixuan, Collins, Charlotte and Collier, Nigel (2022) Rewire-then-Probe: A Contrastive Recipe for Probing Biomedical Knowledge of Pre-trained Language Models. In: 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022), Dublin, Ireland, 22-27 May 2022, pp. 4798-4810.

Wang, Yu, Xin, Xin, Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Jose, Joemon M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-1759, Feng, Fuli and He, Xiangnan (2022) Learning Robust Recommenders Through Cross-Model Agreement. In: ACM Web Conference 2022, Lyon, France, 25-29 April 2022, pp. 2015-2025. ISBN 9781450390965 (doi: 10.1145/3485447.3512202)

Meng, Z. et al. (2020) BETA-Rec: Build, Evaluate and Tune Automated Recommender Systems. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 588-590. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3411524)

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Mccreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2020) Exploring Data Splitting Strategies for the Evaluation of Recommendation Models. In: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020), 22-26 Sep 2020, pp. 681-686. ISBN 9781450375832 (doi: 10.1145/3383313.3418479)

Liu, Siwei, Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318 (2020) A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Model for Cold-Start Recommendation. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China, 25-30 Jul 2020, pp. 2029-2032. ISBN 9781450380164 (doi: 10.1145/3397271.3401252)

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, McCreadie, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2751-2087, Macdonald, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3143-279X and Ounis, Iadh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4701-3223 (2019) Variational Bayesian Context-aware Representation for Grocery Recommendation. In: 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys19) - CARS 2019 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-20 Sept 2019,

Meng, Zaiqiao ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-0318, Liang, Shangsong, Fang, Jinyuan and Xiao, Teng (2019) Semi-supervisedly Co-embedding Attributed Networks. In: Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada, 08-14 Dec 2019,

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Supervision

  • Chang, Xuejun
    Improving Information Retrieval Systems using Large Language Model Reasoning
  • Das, Susmita
    |Topic: Automated Unit Test Generation using LLMs| Our research would be focused on generating unit test cases using large language models (LLMs). We first plan to generate unit test cases from a given natural language description or code snippet by
  • Dong, Shen
    A Proactive Conversational Agent for Conversational Information Seeking
  • Fang, Jinyuan
    Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on Multi-Relational Graphs
  • Meng, Zhaohan
    Heterogeneous entity representation learning for knowledge graph in biomedical science
  • Yi, Xinhao
    Representation Learning of Heterogeneous Entities in Biomedical Pathways
  • Zhang, Xi
    Generative Multi-modal BioMedical Natural Language Modelling

Teaching

  • Recommender Systems (H / M) (COMPSCI4075 / COMPSCI5091 (23-24))
  • Introduction to Data Science and Systems (M) (COMPSCI5089(23-24))
  • Recommender Systems (H / M) (COMPSCI4075 / COMPSCI5091 (22-23))
  • Introduction to Data Science and Systems (M) (COMPSCI5089(22-23)) 
  • Recommender Systems (H / M) (COMPSCI4075 / COMPSCI5091 (21-22))

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